The Dangerous Combo: Fileless Malware and Cryptojacking. (arXiv:2203.03175v2 [cs.CR] UPDATED)

Fileless malware and cryptojacking attacks have appeared independently as the
new alarming threats in 2017. After 2020, fileless attacks have been
devastating for victim organizations with low-observable characteristics. Also,
the amount of unauthorized cryptocurrency mining has increased after 2019.
Adversaries have started to merge these two different cyberattacks to gain more
invisibility and profit under "Fileless Cryptojacking." This paper aims to
provide a literature review in academic papers and industry reports for this
new threat. Additionally, we present a new …

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